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michele
asked in Data
How can I use a public parameter in the name of a writer feature class user attribute?

The user funning my FME workspace enters a year at run time which is used for selecting records.  I want to use the year they entered in the name of a user attribute in the writer feature class.   Referencing the parameter in the user attributes using $(parameter) doesn't work.  I can successfully rename an attribute to incorporate the parameter value with the AttributeRenamer transformer, but the writer feature class won't use that attribute.  What do I need to do to make this work?

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11 years ago
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kevin
asked in Data
MicroStation V8 to MicroStation V7

I am having to convert MicroStation V8 to MicroStation V7 design files. In doing so I am required to select a seed file for the V7 design file output. Is there a way to use the global origin and units of resolution from the source V8 file? Is there a way to strip off the element linkages that are not valid in a V7 design file?

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11 years ago
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hektopascal
asked in Transformers
Please allow me to read questions in cronological order

Hi,   Reading the original question, then the last answer, then the second-to-last answer really makes my head spin.   Optimally, the sort order should be an individual preference (first-to-last, last-to-first, highest rank). My preferences can be tied to my profile, my browser or both.    

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11 years ago
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lisam
asked in Transformers
Grid conversion between British and Irish Grid?

Hi there,  I've recently purchased some data from the Irish Ordnance Survey (.dtm format) which is supplied on the Irish Grid. I would like to convert this data to British Grid for use with other data I already have.  When I purchased this Irish data I was recommended FME software, which I must admit I'd never heard of before, but working regularly with mapping and terrain data it's something I'm really interested in.  I downloaded the trial version to have a look at the software's capabilities, but can't seem to figure out a way to do convert this data? Any help or advice would be much appreciated, I am at a loss!   I've tried to contact FME for both technical support and a personalised demonstration, but to no avail as yet.

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
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denny
asked in Data
DGN to SHP

I have several MicroStation V7 Files of contours and I would like to convert them to ESRI shape files. In the DGN files are lines, linestrings, polygons and text. I want to convert only the lines, linestrings and polygons that are on certain levels. Has anyone got a good solution?  Dennis

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davideagle
Contributor
11 years ago
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ajayel
asked in Data
Run SQL procedure after loading shapefile

Hi, I have a reader and writer to load and re-project a shapefile into MS SQL Spatial 2008 R2.  All good.  Now I want to run an existing stored procedure once after the file loads correctly.  The stored proc has no parameters.  Help greatly appreciated. FME Desktop 2012 SP3

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erik_jan
Contributor
11 years ago
sigtill
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sigtillContributor
asked in Transformers
"Star" or Save a discussion

It would be nice to be able to "Star" or "Save" discussions (like Gmail). So you can have a list of all "Starred" Discussions for the future. In that way you can easily find the discussions you want to follow.

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
adrian
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adrianContributor
asked in Data
Finding No Data in ECW File

Hi,    I have been provided an update of aerial photography in ECW format, I know that some of these files contain areas of black, i.e. there is no new photograph for this area.   I was wondering if there is a way FME can look at each file and tell me is there it contains and area of No Data without me looking at each file individually?    Thanks    Adrain

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
jdh
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jdhContributor
asked in Transformers
Testing for multiple input files

What is the best way to test for multiple input files on a single reader?  I have a workflow where the input is one or more files and the output filename will be based on the input filename if there is only one file but a constant if there are multiple files.  Joanna

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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lpalli
asked in Data
Parameters into log file

How to log into the log file, not only on the Workbench log window, the workspace parameters used to start it?

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11 years ago
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jdiggity
asked in Transformers
Convert multiple points with the same geometry to single point containing all attributes

Hi all,  I have a point dataset that in some cases contains multiple points in the same location. In those cases only , I would like to do two things: 1. merge the points in to a single point and 2. join the attributes of all the merged points and assign them to the attribute table of the single point (denormalize the data).   The reason I am doing this is because I would like to add labels to the points in ArcMap 10.0 but Maplex does not have a clean way to label multiple points with the same geometry so I figure that if the data was denormalized I could then create a label that ecompasses many fields but that stacks them neatly.  Thank you very much in advance for any assistance you can provide.  

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11 years ago
mel
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melContributor
asked in Transformers
Get fieldname from table to use in transformer

I would like to get a  fieldname from a lookup table to use in transformer. I have an oracle table that I use for exporting data from SDE to dgn that holds things like igds_text_size, igds_cell_name etc. I use feauremerger with the layernames to match it to the layers to give all the features in a layer a standard set of values. This allows the attributes to be easily set and stored in an oracle table.  The  problem I run up against is I can't figure out how to set up which field to use for the text label. I have a field call TEXT_FIELD and I want each layer to use a different field from it's table as the label field.  I want to use labelPointReplacer to look at the table and use the field of the value in the TEXT_FIELD.  So for example for the layer address points I want it to use the field ADDRESS_LABEL and for Roads I want it to use the field STREET. I have those listed in the TEXT_FIELD but it just labels them with the text "STREET" and "ADDRESS_LABEL"  

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11 years ago
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mike_robertson
asked in Architecture
FME Server - Database Repository

Hi,  We are about to implement FME Server for our Organization...As the business owner for the application (we will likely also be the administrators), our preference would be to use the FME Repository database delivered with FME Server. Unfortunately our IT group has a policy for using Oracle for all applications. I am trying to defend our position of going with the default database. Does anyone have experience with and or recommendations about which FME Server repository to go with  between Oracle and the built in db?  Does anyone know why FME Server supports external database repositories...it seem to just complicate the installation and I can't see any upside?  The reference Manual simply states the following and there is not much more detail in the Admin Guide   "The FME Server Core uses the repository database to store job and repository information. The database should never be edited directly, although querying the database for job history and other statistical informa

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11 years ago
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geospatiallover
asked in Transformers
Attributing my records with a folder name and file create date

My shp are grouped into folders and I'd like to use the folder name (no spaces) and the date file created of the SHPs in my attribute table.  I have about 50 group folders and an average of 1-50 shps per folder.  I'm trying to write my output into one feature class inside a file geodatabase.  I have already used schema reader to handle the multiple folders and mutiple shps, I can;t figure out how to use the directory and file path reader.  Also is there a way to connect multiple feature types into one writer. The total number of feature types that are read by the Feature reader is almost 1,500 shapefiles.

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owen
11 years ago
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aflynnvelco
asked in Data
KMZ Feature Extract

I have a question about transforming a KMZ file to a shapefile. Each time I import the KMZ file, which has several separate layers, FME is not able to identify the individual layers. The “Select Feature Types” lists out the typical feature types “Animated Update”, “Document”, “Fly To”… but the only feature type that translates into the appropriate geometry is the “Placemark”. However, when I transform the “Placemark” all the attribute information is lost. What am I doing wrong? Is there something I am missing in working with KML/KMZ data?

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11 years ago
geolassi
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geolassiContributor
asked in Transformers
ArcSDE long string

Hi!  I'm reading ArcSDE tables with FME Desktop 2012 SP4. One table has a column, type of which is string with width over 1000 000 000. The type of the same column in Oracle is NCLOB with width of 3000.  When reading the table with ArcSDE Reader, FME doesn't recognize the column at all. FME gives a warning saying that the column is not recognizable. Is it because of the width of the column in ArcSDE? Is there any way to read a column of such a type?

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11 years ago
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trevor
asked in Data
FME is unable to write to an ESRI enterprise SDE database.

FME is unable to write to an ESRI enterprise SDE database.  In the log file, FME says “An ArcGIS license is already checked out. The product checked out is 'ArcView'.”  How can I specify FME use and Arc Editor or Arc Info license?  The computer has ESRI installed. There is a concurrent license that is pointed to Arc Info.  At this point there are several available Arc Info licenses. 

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11 years ago
dos_gis
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dos_gisContributor
asked in Authoring
ODBC Data Reader

Hi, I'm trying to connect to a database using the ODBC 3.x data reader.  The parameters seem correct and I can see the tables in the Table list.  When I try to add the data I get the error:   ODBC2 Reader: Now reading schema for gistxtaxes Database Generated Error Information: Database Error Message: [DataDirect][ODBC Progress OpenEdge Wire Protocol driver][OPENEDGE]Table/View/Synonym not found (7519) Database SQL Statement Text: SELECT * FROM "gistxtaxes" WHERE 1=0 SQL State: 42S02 Variable Information:  ODBC2 Reader: Failed to get schema for feature type 'gistxtaxes'. Continuing with next feature type in the list    I can connect to the data base and add data in ArcMap using the same connection parameters.  Any idea what's going on?

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dos_gis
Contributor
11 years ago
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marco_soave
asked in Data
Problems trying to texturize a Lod2 cityGml model

Dear all, I'd like to work on a automatically generated 3d model composed by lod1 and 2 building. What i'd like to do is to apply some generic texture to this model starting from a datset of tiled textures of roofs and walls. I did some experiments but the obtained results are not really good for two reasons:  - the texture is applied individually to each triangle of the model, thus obtaining a bad graphical result. - I'm not able to transform the lod1 buildings into lod 2 and merge the the result in a single datset in which each building has it's own wallsufrace, groundsurface and roofsurface.    To apply the textures I used an apparenceAdder transformer and tried to set the Geometry Filter to "Geometry Type" "is one of" "IFMEFace"  but nothing changed.    To extract the lod1 bouildings from datset and transform it in lod2 building I used the approach find on this forum ( or the older Google group ) but in the output the lod2 building a

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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amie
asked in Transformers
Exposing Smallworld Attributes that FME Doesn't Recognize

Using FME 2012 and Smallworld 4.1, is there a way to get an attribute exposed when FME seems to ignore it?  Specifically, most of my Smallworld Objects have a "Remarks" field.  When using FME workbench to import or export Smallworld objects, this field is completely ignored.  I was hoping to find a way to expose what this field is called in smallworld language so I can write to it, or expose it so it exports.

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11 years ago
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chrismugdan
asked in Transformers
Finding missing features after generalisation

I have two data sets: the original data set, and one I have generalised. The generalised one has some features removed that I want to add back in so I was trying to use DuplicateRemover to find the unique features. I cannot see any other way to find the missing features. When I try to add the two sorted data sets to the input of the DuplicateRemover I guess it is arbitrary which features are processed first.  Is there a way to indicate which features should be processed first so I get the generalised features and the missing features out?  Is there another way to do what I am trying to do?

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takashi
Contributor
11 years ago
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normshea
asked in Transformers
Multiple AutoCAD layers to one MapInfo table

I have a AutoCAD file that is incorrectly georeferenced.  Is there a way to translate the .dwg so that the result is only one MapInfo table?  I've done the "Quick Translation" and I end up with 92 different MapInfo tables.  I'd like be able to have just one layer that I can "select all" from and drag to the correct (relatively) location.  Is there a way to do this?

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davideagle
Contributor
11 years ago
owen
owen
asked in Data
Fgdb Annotations to dgn - callouts

Hello,  I have annotations stored in a file geodatabase, and can convert the text into dgn labels.  Is there a way of translating the geomerty of annotation callout boxes into lines/polygons? They do not come through automatically...  Owen

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
aquee
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aqueeContributor
asked in Transformers
Filtering null values with Filter Features tool in FME Universal Viewer

Hi Gurus, this one has me stumped.  I have a shapefile with a few thousand features in it and a few dozen fields.  One of these fields in the majority of cases has nothing in it, but in a few cases has non-null data - an URL string.  These are the ones I am interested in looking at.  A google scouring turned up only three references total to the Viewer tool at all (two fme KB links, and a Google group post), none of which apply to this question.  I can specify $Fieldname and operator '!=' but what do I put in the right hand side of the  tool to specify null values?  I am assuming that the value is actually null or some kind of empty value, and not whitespace, invisible ASCII or some other junk...  I've tried 'null', '' and "" , and each time it filters nothing at all. e.g.:  Restoring 21330 feature(s) from FME feature store file `d:\\temp\\FFS_1354146331484_5808' SHAPE::Testing: &History != ""(TestFactory): Tested 11109 input f

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aquee
Contributor
11 years ago
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brex
asked in Authoring
FME Server subscriptions

We have two default subscriptions on FME Server which are email tasks that occur on success or failure of a workspace: EmailJob_Success & EmailJob_Failure. Can these be assigned to specific repositories? What if you have two download portals on the same FME Server, can they have different e-mail templates assigned?

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11 years ago

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